Jakob

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by Jakob 5d ago
Until 10 years ago, i used Dash for that. It’s still around https://kapeli.com/dash It’s instant, works offline, auto-updates, and includes all the websites you listed, and allows for custom ones too.
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Re: Working Group Last Call: Incremental HTTP Messages(lists.w3.org)
2 points by Jakob 2mo ago|2 comments
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by Jakob 2mo ago
Submitted, because I just found out that even after 28 years, the definition of "upstream" and "downstream" is still heavily contested. > Umm, no. Fix the Envoy proxy terminology so that it isn't obviously wrong
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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? (2023)(news.mit.edu)
4 points by Jakob 3mo ago|2 comments
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by Jakob 3mo ago
Less than Singapore for sure. Less than European cities, I’m not so sure. I don’t have the numbers but if you do an image search of Jakarta (probably one of the worst vegetation-wise and boasting a population of a quarter of Germany) it sti
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by Jakob 3mo ago
Yes, Singapore is great for that. But to be fair with the other cities, it’s very hard _not_ to have abundant vegetation in tropical rainforest climate. Everything grows rapidly and stops at nothing in its way. In other climates, like Europ
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by Jakob 3mo ago
I would see that as an absolute win. Socialization is the main point I send my kids to school. Socialization leads to discourse which leads to learning.
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by Jakob 3mo ago
I really like Mimestream, which is a native client for Gmail. Very fast and supports all the usual native macOS keyboard navigation, e.g. shift or command to amend selection in a list.
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Claude, Author of the Humanitas(greaterwrong.com)
2 points by Jakob 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 4mo ago
Maybe not in your corner of the internet, but businesses used server side includes (SSI) for that, not iframes. You add “include” tags to your HTML file and your web server like nginx or varnish would replace it with the fragment at runtime
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by Jakob 4mo ago
We have been authoring HTML by hand for decades with ease. Text editors are very good at it, and many have commands to auto-wrap, auto-close etc. Reading and writing is simple.
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by Jakob 4mo ago
For a long time this was a common concept: that more central authorities should only come in where more local cannot effectively do it (subsidiarity). This was of course pretty universal until recently. The oldest counter-example I can thin
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by Jakob 4mo ago
My partner and I are from two different European countries that speak different languages. When we wanted to marry in the country of my partner, both our (catholic) churches needed to sync. They did so in their common language: Latin. That
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by Jakob 6mo ago
Speed is a quality in itself. We are so bugged down by slow stuff that we often ignore that and don’t actively search for another. But every now and then a well-optimised tool/page comes along with instant feedback and is a real pleasu
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by Jakob 9mo ago
And recently even dropping the negation itself while keeping the meaning: “je sais pas” I never thought about that. Interesting. This negation related cycle is apparently called Jespersen’s cycle and happens in many languages. The English e
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by Jakob 9mo ago
Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it. Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -> aujourd’hui (day of today) Keywor
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by Jakob 9mo ago
Yes, this is unfortunately still the way and was very common back when iOS Safari did not allow embedded video. For a fast start of the video, reverse the implementation: instead of downgrading from Websockets to polling when connection fai
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by Jakob 9mo ago
Contemporary historic preservation sees itself as the guardian of historical substance. The content of a monument is bound to the preservation of the inherited material. Georg Dehio’s principle of "conserving, not restoring" is of
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by Jakob 10mo ago
iCloud surprisingly works without issues for me. You can switch on “keep downloaded” for the folder in question.
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Month of AI Bugs(monthofaibugs.com)
3 points by Jakob 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 1y ago
On the last point on Apple Notes: iCloud has the “keep downloaded” option now on iOS and macOS for folders and files. This makes every app that saves into iCloud files behave like Notes, i.e. work offline with automatic online sync.
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by Jakob 2y ago
Most countries have mandatory tax withholding by the employer, but not all (e.g. Singapore, Indonesia). In that case you would pay the taxes yourself. What I haven’t heard yet, is not being allowed to sell on the settlement date. That puts
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by Jakob 2y ago
It’s actually not harder thanks to HLS: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming Live streaming with HLS is equal to distributing static files and can be very low latency. If you need to go below 3s of laten
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by Jakob 2y ago
Not taking away from your point, just for comparison: A British Airways first class LHR-JFK roundtrip is $10K today for an 8h flight. Supersonic would be 3h.
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by Jakob 2y ago
Socrates says that profound knowledge is gained through interaction. He compares the written word to a painting, meaning it can be analysed but it doesn’t respond to questions and is therefore not a substitute for dialog. This mirrors the c
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by Jakob 2y ago
I haven’t been to UK airports, but often I find one of the more prominent bottleneck to be central checks per terminal instead of distributed checks at each gate like they happen at more efficient airports. The latter is a major improvement
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by Jakob 2y ago
Try out Singapore and fly for example to Phuket. It’s a very lean process with optimised waiting times (read: nearly none) and walking distances on both sides. It can be done, most airports are just amazingly inefficient. No idea why that i
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by Jakob 2y ago
git config --global diff.noprefix true Checkout the manual for more prefix options.
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by Jakob 2y ago
As middle ground for small scripts I like implementations like the one from 1Password: The environment variables contain the path to the secret: export DB_PASSWORD="op://app-prod/db/password" Calling the script
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Test Sizes(testing.googleblog.com)
1 points by Jakob 2y ago|0 comments

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